Practise using ‘too’ and ‘not enough’ in this ‘Beyond the limit’ quiz.
'Beyond the limit', as you probably know, refers to acts or expectations that go further than what should be normal ~ e.g. 'their patience was tested beyond the limit when the train broke down in a tunnel for five hours'.
Here's a Quiz to test your knowledge of how to express various 'boundary' concepts in English ... but not quite 'beyond the limit', we hope!
Answer 1 is just about possible (linguistically) ... but, surely, unacceptably demeaning as a criticism of a human being facing probably one of the most sustained painful experiences that anyone can.
Answer 3 is mis-constructed (see earlier comments), and Answer 4, while it again works well and even has quite a neat linguistic ring to it, clearly falls foul of the same criticism as Answer 1.
'Posh' is a somewhat slangy but widely-recognised word to refer to people or things that are of good quality and perhaps even rather too good, to the extent of being (perhaps deliberately) pretentious ~ such as clothing, vehicles, houses etc. (things that people with plenty of money can choose to buy in good-quality versions as 'status symbols').
It is said to have come from the way that cabins were allocated on ships in the days before most people travelled abroad by air. If they were going from Britain to (say) India, the Far East or Australia / New Zealand, those who could afford to would book a cabin on the 'port' side of the ship on the way out (the left-hand side looking forwards, so mostly facing north away from the sun) and 'starboard' (the other way round) for their return voyage. This arrangement ~ 'Port Outbound, Starboard Home' ~ was abbreviated to POSH, which also conveniently sounds like a piece of plummy-mouthed upper-class slang. (It's usually pronounced 'posh' to rhyme with 'wash', as you might expect; but sometimes it undergoes a further level of satirical exaggeration to be pronounced 'poash', almost more like the French 'gauche'.)
Meanwhile ~ in one further linguistic twist ~ you may be amused to read (truly, we believe!) of a young TEFL learner who had come across the word Posh and its history, and proudly told someone else that it stood for 'Port out, SKATEboard home'!
Anyway, make what you like of the finished phrase in our actual Question, but we hope you can at least 'see where it comes from' culturally!